Word: huds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many ideas he has outlined as secretary of HUD, the one Kemp advocates most ardently the creation of federal enterprise zones in the inner cities. These zones use tax incentives to encourage urban development and entrepreneurship. Thirty-seven states and the District of Columbia have implemented--with the creation of an estimated 180,000 jobs and about $9 million in private investment in poor areas, according to Kemp...
...There's a lot of people who know that the Government goes haywire in a lot of respects. I'm fool enough to guess that the media would be the first one to know because you're looking at the HUD situation, you look at the IRS problems. Almost everything you scratch, there's a problem...
...look at the HUD scandal and see whose pocket the money is in. But you can't see any money in the pocket of Edwin Gray, the former Federal Home Loan Bank Board chairman, who fingered you. What's the motive...
Many members of Congress were furious last year when former HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce stonewalled his way through hearings on influence peddling and favoritism at his agency. Last week, bowing to Democratic pressure, Attorney General Dick Thornburgh recommended the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate Pierce's role in awarding millions of dollars in contracts to associates of top Republicans. But Thornburgh did Pierce a favor: he limited the inquiry to moderate-income housing contracts and refused to examine whether Pierce lied at the hearings...
Efforts to clean up HUD also ensnared a Democrat last week. Agency officials said Jesse Jackson bombarded them for months with calls on behalf of developer A. Bruce Rozet, a key Jackson fund raiser. To no avail: Rozet, who had grown rich on Government contracts, was barred from receiving more. Meanwhile HUD is examining why his tenants were allegedly left "to live like rats...